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Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Nabs Film Rights To Unpublished Young Adult Novel About Teen Feminist Revolution

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Paper Kite, the production company of Amy Poehler and former Comedy Central executive Brook Posch, behind the Comedy Central show Broad City, has picked up the film rights to Moxie, a young adult novel by Jennifer Mathieu "about a girl who takes inspiration from her mother's stories of the Riot Grrrl movement of the 90's to start her own anonymous zine, sparking a modern-day feminist revolution at her small-town Texas high school."

In a report on Variety about the pickup, Roaring Book Press senior editor Katherine Jacobs says of the author, "Jennifer writes with a voice so authentic to the teenage experience that it feels like her characters walked straight out of a high school classroom and into the pages of her books. She is poised to become one of the most important writers for young adults working today."

In a twist that would make Mark Millar proud, the book hasn't even been published yet! It's set to be released on September 19 by Roaring Book Press, but it's already got a movie deal. Perhaps Mathieu could have a future in comics?

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